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[Student Life] 2011-12-29, SIPPE graduate students joint Shanghai Soho International Youth Hostel to donate the unworn clothes, scarves, and gloves for keeping warm, and second-hand books to the western pupils of Lisu minority, Lijiang District, Yunnan, this time. The Shanghai Soho International Youth Hostel will be responsible for the clothes sterilized and delivery of all the donations to the school by post. All members of our laboratory responded and donated positively, with hope that the western impoverished children may feel warm in this winter. (zh)
[Lab Tendency] 2011-12-28, Life Technologies’ technical supports gave us introduction on the principle and application of bead-based solution for different beads, and protein expression system (in-vitro, prokaryote, yeast, insect, mammalian and virus) in our laboratory. With the detailed questions occurred during experiments, we discussed with technical supporter. (zh)
[Academic Exchanges] 2011-11-28, The 2011 annual meeting of the national key laboratory of plant molecular genetics (NKLPMG) and the 23rd academic commission was successfully held in the lecture hall of SIPPE. Dr. Hongwei Xue, director, made the work report at the meeting on behalf of the laboratory. He generally introduced the orientation and objectives, research directions of laboratory and field layout, talent team, and the overall progress of 2011, and summarized the research progresses that made in plant function genomics, plant hormone and signal transduction, plant development and cell biology, plant nutrition and metabolism, plant biotechnology and other areas. Meanwhile, Dr. Hongwei Xue expressed that the laboratory will seek for the gaps and shortcomings from the assessment, strive to improve the sustainability of the research outputs, and continue to strengthen the capacity in the critical areas of scientific research and great projects, achievements transformation, personnel training and other aspects of the work.

The success of the academic commission is of great significance to the future work of the lab, which will bring together expert advices, maintain a good momentum of development, refine research direction, optimize talent team, make clear the development goal, boost work of laboratory in all aspects into a new period of development. (zhh)
[Lab Tendency] 2011-11-01, the Chinese spaceship Shenzhou-8 was launched on board a Long March rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia.

Althrough the lauching course, as the chief designer of Space Life Science and Biotechnology subsystem, Prof. Hong-Wei Xue went to the launch centre for the last preparation work at the forefront with the other scientists.

As reported by deputy chief commander of the manned space project, Shenzhou-8 carried a bio sample from the collaboration of China and the Europe. As many as 17 experiments on life science, projected together by China and Germany, are scheduled to be operated on the Shenzhou-8. In addition, it is the first time for China's manned spaceship to be responsible for international cooperation in the field of space science. Shanghai Insititute of Plant Physiology and Ecology (SIPPE) has played an important role in the project designing, demonstration and engineering in the past 4 years. All the researchers has made great efforts in the preparation. (llb)
[Lab Tendency] 2011-10-28, PhD candidates in our lab, Yajin Ye and Lijuan Zhou, carried out their opening reports on "Dynamic DNA methylation regulates rice seed development" and "Rice plant type and development of leaf angle", respectively. Firstly, they summarized the current progress in the related area and provided their thoughts on how to push the related research forwards. Then advisor, Prof. Xue, and other instructors gave them the professional and prospective suggestions on how to carry out the proposal and pointed out what should be the key point and novelty. (zhh)
[Academic Exchanges] 2011-09-16 to 19, the 2011 National Conference on Plant Biology was held in Nanning, Guangxi province of China. This magnificent conference recruited many famous scientists and scientific researchers to communicate and discuss the recent results and progresses on plant biology, and was sponsored by the organizations of The Genetics Society of China, Chinese Society of Plant Physiology, Chinese Society for Cell Biology and Botanical Society of China. Prof. Hongwei Xue was invited to attend this conference, made the talk on functional mechanisms of phosphatidylinositol signaling pathway on polar auxin transport, and communicated our recent research progresses with other participants. (llb)
[Lab Tendency] 2011-08-29 to 30, 2011 Annual group meeting of Functional Mechanisms of Hormones and Seed Development Functional Genomics was held in Dongshan, Jiangsu Province. Our group leader Professor Hongwei Xue presided this conference. And it’s our great honor to meet professor Zhihong Xu, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and former president of Peking University and have his precious advice through this conference.

Stay with the program, firstly senior PhD students, Yong Tang, JingJing Zhang, Hongbo Gao, Jun Wang, Linlin Yin, Jinjin Xiang concluded their work in the past years. They shared the research background, progress, workplan as well as the experiences they learned from the past work with all of us. Each report was followed by hot discussion on how to make the work for the scientific issue significative and improve perfectly.

Then, the new members of our group, Yajin Ye and Lijuan Zhou talked their project design with us. In this session, Prof. Xue gave them plenty of valuable suggestions on the further research plan and let them know the importance on rigorous and delicated experimental design.

Next, we went into the discussion for current researches on PI signaling, microRNAs, seed quality and leaf development. Dr. Hongyan Yao, introduced the progress going on in PI subgroup, questioned the barriers in this research area and suggested some workplan . Libi Lin, representative of the microRNAs subgroup, summed up the trouble that members faced up as well as the thoughts about the future work. Hua Zhang made the conclusion for the current work on seed development and quality, and presented advices on this part of work. Lijuan Zhou talked about the proceding study in the leaf development , and focused on the exploration of functional mechanisms of hormones in this process.

Finally, Prof. Xu positively made sure of the work we are doing, definitely affirmed the academic direction we are working on, and encouraged us to make our work perfectly on scientific issues, which were so meaningful for us. Sincerely hope our lab grow better and better! ( llb, zh)
[Academic Exchanges] 2011-07-16 to 21, the 17th “International Symposium on Ca2+Binding Proteins and Ca2+Function in Health and Disease ”was held in Beijing, China. The CaBP meeting covered three major themes, Ca2+ homeostasis, Ca2+ functions, and Ca2+ signaling and disease, and a strong emphasis was laid on molecular and structural biology and biochemical aspects of calcium signaling. Professor Hongwei Xue attended and was invited to chair the workshop on “Specialized Ca functions symposium ”,in which he made the speech about “IP3/ Ca2+in plant blue-light signaling and pollen germination” . (llb)
[Academic Exchanges] 2011-06-30 to 07-03, Professor Hongwei Xue as well as our group member, Dr. Hongyan Yao attended The 2nd International Conference on Plant Metabolism was held in Qindao, China. The theme of this conference is “Plant Metabolism and Modern Agriculture”. Many leading scientists in the plant metabolism world presented their latest research in the areas of plant metabolisms involving biosynthesis of terpenes, vitamins, phenols, pigments and cell walls, carbon and nitrogen metabolism, metabolomics and metabolic engineering. The conference brought researchers together to share the knowledge on plant metabolism, which also served as a forum to promote the development on plant metabolism. Prof. Xue was invited to make the speech on “Studies on the rice starch biosynthesis and quality control” and organized the plenary session on regulation of plant nutrition and metabolism. (llb)
[Student Life] 2011-6-27, The Chorus Competition of the 90th anniversary of the communist party of China: “Sing the Praises of the Communist Party of China and Hands by Hands for Making Bold Innovations” was held in the lecture hall of our institute. The first party branch of the National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics (NKLPMG) that our group belongs to sang the songs of “Unity is strength” and “Great Sea, My Sweet Home”. Dr. Hongwei Xue, Libi Lin, Jingjing Zhang, Yong Tang and Jun Wang took part in the song competition. Jun Wang also sang a solo “ Small poplar”. The competition went smoothly in the warm atmosphere, and audience and referees gave the hope that more activities like this which shows the spirituality of the institution, and passion and vitality of students could be held from now on. (zh)
[Academic Exchanges] 2011-06-22 to 25, our PhD students, Linlin Yin and Hongbo Gao attended the 22nd International Conference on Arabidopsis Research being held at the Memorial Union on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, Wisconsin, United States of America. Yin and Gao introduced their work by posters titled “Studies On The Arabidopsis Fatty Acid Regulators By Coexpression Analysis” and “Arabidopsis ARCP Protein DDH1/CSI1 Is A Novel Microtubule-associated Protein Which Is Required For Microtubule Stability”, respectively. (llb)
[Lab Tendency] 2011-06-21, our group member Wenjing Jia passed her PH.D. thesis defense successfully. Her defense title was “the regulation of 5Ptase to leaf senescensc in Arabidopsis”. After her presentation, the defense committee talked about senescence with her, and gave some good suggestions for the future work. (xujj)
[Academic Exchanges] 2011-05-31 to 06-04, professor Hongwei Xue and our group members, Baojun Yang, Libi Lin, attended the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Plant Cell and Developmental Biology, which was held at the Suzhou Dushu Lake Conference Center in Suzhou, China. Prof. Xue hosted the conference in the session of “CELLULAR SIGNALING” and gave a very interesting talk titled “Regulation of phospholipids and phosphatidylinositol signaling on PIN proteins and polar auxin transport ”. Baojun Yang and Libi Lin felt much benefited from this conference, and then shared their gained knowledge as well as their own views on the progress of the plant cell biology with others of our group members. (llb)
[Academic Exchanges] 2011-05-26 to 28, Professor Hongwei Xue and our lab members, Dr. Hongyan Yao, Jingjiing Xiang, and Jun Wang, attended the 2011 annual meeting of the Shanghai Institute of Physiology and Ecology(SIPPE). The theme of this meeting is “The next successful five years for SIPPE”. Dr. Guozhang Wu was awarded the Successful Participant award in poster session for his work titled “Arabidopsis β-ketoacyl-[acyl carrier protein] synthase I (KASI) Is Crucial for Fatty Acid Synthesis and Plays a Role in Chloroplast Division and Embryo Development”. (llb)
[Lab Tendency] 2011-05-18, Peng Li, passed her Ph.D. thesis defense successfully. The committee gave some valuable suggestions for the further work. (xujj)
[Lab Tendency] 2011-05-16, our group member, Meiqing Xing, passed her Ph.D. thesis defense successfully. The defense title was “Proteomics studies of auxin signal in Arabidopsis”. Her presentation and her great achievements during the past several years were fully affirmed by the defense committee. And the committee gave some valuable suggestions for the further work. (xujj)
[Lab Tendency] 2011-4-18, three graduate students (Shutang Tan, Jingjing Xu, Baojun Yang) successfully passed their mid-term examination and were formally updated as Ph.D. candidates. These three students systematically summarized their achievement on the study of mechanisms of casein kinase, regulation of starch metabolism and proteasome inhibitor in their past two to three years, and meanwhile presented ambitious prospects for future work. Their work and plan were also gained considerable beneficial suggestion via adequate discussion with attented experts and students on related research field. (xujj)
[Academic Exchanges] 2011-03-31 to 04-01, Professor Hongwei Xue was invited to attend the symposium “Systems Biology and Genomics” hosted by Chinese Academy of Sciences and Bayer CropScience in Beijing, China, which aimed to make a comprehensive communication for both research progresses and seek the research collaborative opportunity for both sides. In the section of “Gene Network and Computational Biology Venue”, Prof. Xue and gave a keynote speech make a speech on “Studied on Regulation of The Starch Quality by Rice Mutant Population”. (llb)
[Academic Exchanges] 2011-3-24，Zhihong Xu, professor of Life Science College of Peking University, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Science, was invited to make an interesting and current talk on the topic about scientific moral construction and social responsibility of scientists at Shanghai Institute of biological sciences. Mr. Xu firstly introduced the current states of scientific research and domestic education, with emphasis on the importance of scientific moral and social responsibility of scientists. Then he gave some relevant examples and placed high hopes on creation of good academic environments for all scientists. His wonderful talk arise deep thoughts of scientists. (zhh)
[Lab Tendency] 2011-3-21, Professor Hong-Wei Xue was recently invited to join the Plant Physiology Editorial Board to serve as a monitoring editor.

Plant Physiology is an international journal devoted to physiology, biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, genetics, biophysics, and environmental biology of plants. The journal has grown dramatically in recent years.

All of us received the news with great delight, which is viewed as recognition of accomplishments of our groups and Prof. Xue. (llb)
[Academic Exchanges] 2011-03-15 to 18, Professor Hongwei Xue and other researchers from CAS and CSIRO convened in Joint CAS-CSIRO Workshop for ‘Cereal Genomics for Food Security’, which was held in Canberra & Kosciuszko National Park, Australia. This workshop aims to make a comprehensive communication for joint projects, and seek the further research collaboration between CAS and CSIRO. In the session of Grain Component and Nutritional Quality, Professor Hongwei Xue was invited to make a speech on Studies On Regulation of The Starch Quality by Rice Mutant Population. (llb)
[Lab Tendency] 2011-3-10, the new members of lab Yajin Ye and Lijuan Zhou presented their research proposals, which are about casein kinase, epigenetic effect on endosperm development and crosstalk about auxin and brassinosteroid, respectively. Prof. Xue affirmd the potential scientific value of their proposals, and patiently pointed out the existing problems, mainly about the operability of the proposal. Meanwhile, other teachers and senior students gave lots of valuable advice. (zhh)
[Student Life] 2011-02-14,New term begins ! All the members in our lab are get freshed from the 2010 spring festival but now throw themselves into the research work again immediately. The past year witness a solid foundation in term of our products, we are optimistic and hopeful that the next year will come better. (xujj)
[Lab Tendency] 2011-2-14, Lijuan Zhou and Yajin Ye joined our group after rotation practice.(xujj)
[Lab Tendency] 2011-01-21, our group member, Linlin Gao, passed her Ph.D. thesis defense successfully. The defense title was “Microarray analysis of receptor-like kinases in rice and research about the function of R90 in rice midrib’ s development”. Her presentation and her great achievements during the past several years were fully affirmed by the defense committee. She answered the questions of committee members very clearly. And the committee gave some valuable suggestions for the further work. (xujj)
[Lab Tendency] 2011-1-12, the three graduate students, Baojun Yang, Shutang Tan and Jingjing Xu presented their research proposal and review on special, which are about ubiquitin-proteasome pathway, casein kinases and starch metabolism regulation respectively. In the reports, instructors and Prof. Xue affirmed their work and patiently pointed out the existed problems and gave lots of valuable advices. This kind of guidance is good for their projects and congratulate these students. (zhh)
[Lab Tendency] 2011-1-11 to 12, "The 2010 conclusion meeting of National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics” was held in the lecture hall. Wenjing Jia and Jingjing Zhang presented their reports titled as “Rice dual specificity phosphatase OsDPS4 regulates leaf starch metabolism and seed development” and “Funtion of Arabidopsis transcriptional factor NF-Y ”. And their wonderful reports gained lively discussions after the reports. The conclusion meeting enhanced communication among labs and is good for the research work of students. (zhh)

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[Lab Tendency] 2010-12-10, the subgroup meeting was held, and mainly talking about the Shanghai T-DNA Insertion Population (SHIP) and rice starch metabolism regulation. The rice SHIP provide a rich and solid platform for the rice functional genomics studies, during the meeting, how to use the SHIP effectively and new methods for searching the SHIP were discussed. For starch metabolism regulation, advice on improving the detecting methods and analyzing of transcriptional regulation network were giving. Finally, we talked about the existing problems of the laboratory and needed experimental system for convenient work are . Through this discussion, we learn more about the laboratory resources, and it’s good for our further research work. (zhh)
[Lab Tendency] 2010-11-23, our group member, Xi Yang, passed her Ph.D. thesis defense successfully. The defense title was “Studies on the mechanism of signaling cross-talk of brassinosteroid and auxin in plants”. Her presentation and her great achievements during the past 5 years were fully affirmed by the defense committee. She answered the questions of committee members very clearly. And the committee gave some valuable suggestions for the further work. (xujj)
[Academic Exchanges] 2010-11-02, The 2010 annual meeting of the national key laboratory of plant molecular genetics (NKLPMG) and the 22rd academic commission was successfully held in the lecture hall of SIPPE. The meeting was begun with the reports of Dr. Zhihong Xu, the director of academic committee, and Dr. Hongwei Xue, the director of laboratory. Then some members of the laboratory reported their research progresses. The members of academic committee gave suggestive advices for each report. Finally, the PI members and members of academic committee made further academic exchanges. (zhh)
[Academic Exchanges] 2010-10-29 to 31, Professor Hongwei Xue was invited to attend The 2010 annual meeting of the national Botanical Society of Plant Cell Biology. The theme of this conference was about the mechanisms underlying cell differenciation and gene regulationg in plant development. Prof. Xue was invited to give a lecture on Effects of fatty acid synthesis in chloroplast division and embryo development. (llb)
[Academic Exchanges] 2010-10-21, Dr. Pamela Colosimo , the associate editor of Nature Genetics visited SIPPE at the invitation of Prof. Hongwei Xue and gave us a lecture on how to publish in Nature Genetics. She introduced the process of submitting a paper to Nature Genetics, and how they evaluate a paper and sent to reviewers, what is important for acception. During the lecture, some questions about submitting issue were answered. (zhh)
[Academic Exchanges] 2010-10-08 to 10, Professor Hongwei Xue was invited to attend China-Japan Joint Workshop on Rice Morphogenesis, which was held in Beijing, China. This symposium focused on the scientific development of bilateral cooperation and was hosted by the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB), CAS, and chaired by Prof. Jiayang Li and Prof. Mound Junko. There were eighteen research scientists from both sides of Japan and China to give a series of interesting lectures on the current researches. Prof. Xue was invited to give a lecture on Global transcriptional analysis revealed the complex regulation of rice seeds. (llb)
[Academic Exchanges] 2010-09-23 to 27, The 8th International Conference On Plant Cell and Signals was held in Wuyishan, FuJian, China. The theme of this symposium was about the regulatory mechanisms underlying cell functions in plant development and responses to the environment. Prof. Hongwei Xue attended and was invited to make the speech on Posttranscriptional Regulation of Ins(1,4,5)P3 on PIN Proteins, which arose strong interests of scientists on spot. (llb)
[Academic Exchanges] 2010-08-30, Prof. Yongbiao Xue came to SIPPE for academic exchanges, and was invited to give us a lecture titled with A Life or Death Decision: Control of S-RNase Based Self-Incompatibility(SI). The research area of his lab mainly focus on the molecular mechanisms of pollen recognition in flowering plants. They have found the first member of the SLF family, AhSLF-S2, in Antirrhinum, whick mediates the pollen function of S-RNase-based SI and its protein product forms part of an SCF (Skp1/Cullin or CDC53/F-box) complex to target S-RNases for destruction by the ubiquitin/26S proteosome-mediated proteolytic pathway during compatible pollination. Their discovery provoked great interest of audience on spot and hot discussion. (zhh)
[Academic Exchanges] 2010-8-24, Dr. Jun Xu, the former member of our lab, working in The Rockefeller University of the United States, came back to be invited to give us a talk about his research work for mRNA storage and mRNA decapping in Arabidopsis stress response. His report caught students’ attention and many interesting questions were discussed. From the lecture, we know that mRNA storage and decapping also play an important role in stress response, and this kind of function may involve in other responses of environment conditions. (zhh)
[Lab Tendency] 2010-7-30, our group member, Liangjiao Xue, defended his phD successfully. His defence was concentrated on the gene-regulating network of developing seeds in Oryza sativa and targeting analysis of microRNAs. After he introduced his work fluently, the defense committee fully affirmed his great achievements. During the defence, he answered questions clearly. The committee also gave some valuable suggestions for the further work. (wsy)
[Lab Tendency] 2010-07-26, our group memebers Fangfang Fu and Guozhang Wu succsssfully passd their Ph.D. thesis defenses in succession. Fangfang Fu reported her work on genes regulating starch metabolism of Oryza sativa seeds. Guozhang Wu reported his work about the function of AtKASI in chloroplast and root hair pattern. The defense committee fully affirmed their great achievements and also made many valuable suggestions for their further work. (wsy)
[Academic Exchanges] 2010-07-18 to 22, professor Hongwei Xue and our lab members, Meiqing Xing and Hongyan Yao, attended The 2010 national Conference On Plant Biology which was held in Nankai University, Tianjin, China. The theme of this symposium is about the plant molecular biology and modern agriculture. Professor Xue was invited to be the chairman for this organization, and also made the academic speech for Effects of protein phosphorylation in phytohormone signaling. (llb)
[Lab Tendency] 2010-07-18, our group memeber Xinxin Han and Biqing Wen succsssfully passd their Ph.D. thesis defenses insuccession. Xinxin Han comprehensively introduced her excellent work on an inhibitory protein of Arabidopsis thaliana proteosome, then Biqing Wen systematically summarized his great job focusing on OsHOB1. The defense committee fully affirmed their great achievement and also gave several valuable suggestions for their further work. (wsy)
[Lab Tendency] 2010-7-17，our group memeber Cheng Dai and Qiuming Shi succsssfully passd their Ph.D. thesis defenses in succession. Cheng Dai systematically summarized his great work on OsEL1,then Qiuming Shi comprehensively introduced his excellent job focusing on AtMSBP1. The defense committee fully affirmed their great achievements and also made many valuable suggestions for their further work. (wsy)
[Academic Exchanges] 2010-06-28 to 07-02, professor Hongwei Xue and our lab members, Xi Yang, Li Song attended The 20th International Conference On Plant Growth Substances (IPGSA,2010) in Universitat Rovira I Virgil, Tarragona, Spain. In the branch site of “Light responses”, Professor Xue made the speech about Effects of brassinosteroid-auxin crosstalk in Photo morphogenesis. Dr. Li Song and Xi Yang also introduced their work through three pieces of poster, which were “Studies on the Regulatory Network of Brassinosteroid Effects in Photo morphogenesis Through Genome-Wide Transcription Analysis ”, “Arabidopsis Membrane Steroid Binding Protein1(MSBP1) regulates brassinosteroid signaling by interacting with brassinosteroid associated receptor kinase 1 BAK1” and “Arabidopsis Membrane Steroid Binding Protein1(MSBP1) Stimulate Tropism by Regulating Vesicle Trafficking and Polar Auxin Transport”. (llb)
[Lab Tendency] 2010-05-27, our group memeber Yanan Yang successfully passd her M.S thesis defense. She systematically summarized her excellent works, which mainly focused on OsABL1. The defense committee fully affirmed her great achievement and also gave many valuable suggestions for the further work. (wsy)
[Lab Tendency] 2010-04-17 to 18, 2010 Annual group meeting of Functional Mechanisms of Hormones and Seed Development Functional Genomics was held in Changshu, Jiangsu Province. This meeting aimed to encourage communication and promote thinking.

Firstly, senior PhD students, Fangfang Fu and Guozhang Wu, shared their research experiences from their project design, research method and research clues with all of us. Then, Jingjing Xiang and Jun Wang reported their research progress and further work plan. The new members of our group, Baojun Yang, Jingjing Xu and Shutang Tan talked their project design widely. In this part, Prof. Xue gave his valuable proposal on how to think about the scientific issues and work on the further research, which will commit to our further research.

Next, we made a wide discussion for our current research concerns on hormones, PI signaling, seed quality and microRNA. Xiaoyi Zhou, representative of the hormones subgroup, focused on the exploration of functional mechanisms of hormones to discuss. Yong Tang, summed up the troubles and ideas that the members of PI signaling met and thought about in the research. Biqing Wen made the conclusion for the current work on seed development and quality, and gave his advice on further research plan on this part of work. Liangjiao Xue presented a summing-up report about current work on microRNA and perspective on future work.

In the end, Prof. Xue made the summary for the academic achievements of the last year and drew a blueprint for the future’s work. Also he encouraged his student to fight for their academic dream. Sincerely hope our lab to get further achievements in the future.(llb, zh, wsy, djq)
[Lab Tendency] 2010-03-11, Xu Jingjing, Tan Shutang and Yang Baojun, the new members of our group, have presented their research proposal successfully. Some problems had been pointed out, meanwhile lots of valuable advices and guidance was given by senior students and Prof. Xue. All these advance discussion about their proposal will committed to their further research. (zh)
[Student Life] 2010-3-5. To celebrate the 100 anniversary of the International Working Women's Day, the women’s committee in SIBS organized a cultural tour to Lingshan Buddha Palace, which is located around the Lake Tai in Wuxi city. Female students and staff in our lab joined the journey, and quite enjoyed the beautiful scenery there. (zxy)
[Student Life] 2010-02-22,New term begins ! All the members in our lab are get freshed from the 2010 spring festival but now throw themselves into the research work again immediately. The past year witness a solid foundation in term of our products, we are optimistic and hopeful that the next year will come better. (syw)
[Lab Tendency] 2010-02-18,Prof. Xue and other seven professors in the SIBS were enrolled in the 2009th New Centuary National Hundred, Thousand and Ten Thousand Talent Project. This project is organized by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security with other six ministries and aimed to train high quality talent. (djq)
[Lab Tendency] 2010-1-21, Our group member Yu Mei successfully passed her PH.D. thesis defense. She systematically summarized her excellent works, which are mainly focused on the functional studies of Arabidopsis phosphatidylinosito. The defense committee fully affirmed her great achievement and also gave many valuable suggestions for the further work.(zxy)
[Student Life] 2010-1-15, the 2010th NEW YEAR PARTY of SIPPE was held in the Hope Hotel, Prof. Xue and other leaders of SIBS and SIPPE made sensational speeches. Prof. Xue gave a brief of the achievements of SIPPE in the past year and proposed a better future to everyone. Brilliant performances on the stage and excited audience pushed the party to climaxes over and over. In the end, Happy New Year and wish everyone everything goes smooth in the year to come. (WW)
[Lab Tendency] 2009-1-20 to 21, the year of 2009 conclusion meeting of National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics was held in the lecture hall. Fangfang Fu and Qiuming Shi presented their reports titled as “Co-expression analysis identified RSR1, an AP2/EREBP family transcription factor, as a novel rice starch biosynthiesis regulator” and “Arabidopsis MSBP1 is activated by HY5 and HYH and is involved in photomorphogenesis”. And their wonderful reports gained lively discussions after the reports. (zxy)

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[Lab Tendency] 2009-11-5 Our group member Xu Chen successfully passed her PH.D. thesis defense, systematically summed up her outstanding studies on function of Arabidopsis Inositol Polyphosphate 5-Phosphatase in PHOTOTROPIN1 Signaling and the relation between IP3 flow and auxin polar transport. The defense committee fully affirmed her splendid achievement and also gave many valuable suggestions for the further work. (zxy)
[Lab Tendency] 2009-10-26, this week the four graduate students Wang Siyue, Dong Jiaqiang, Zhang Hua and Lin Libi successfully passed their opening reports. In the reports, instructors concerned patiently pointed out some problems existed and gave lots of valuable advice, thus Prof. Xue made further discussions with related students over their topics and gave clear guidance and suggestions, so as to make sure their projects run smooth in a good direction. Congratulations to these students.(WW)
[Student Life] 2009-9-29 All members in our group saw an educational movie, the Founding of a Republic, a greeting film for the 60th national day. The film represents the glorious history of the Chinese Communist Party and the democratic parties struggled together for the final victory. It gave us a vivid history course and let us loved our motherland and the Party much more!(zxy)
[Lab Tendency] 2009-8-7, All members in our group carried out a comprehensive observation for our rice population phenotypes in the field. Five thousand lines of rice were observed and the phenotypes were recorded in detail. This work would provide important data for our future studies. (zxy, cyj)
[Lab Tendency] 2009-7-15, Our group members, Liangjiao Xue, Xu Chen and Xi Yang were awarded the “merit student” of the Graduate School for their outstanding qualities in moral, scientific and healthiness. Congratulations! (zxy)
[Academic Exchanges] 2009-6-4, Dr. Stephanie Robert and Dr. Jurgen Kleine-Vehn from Friml’s research group of Ghent University were invited to give excellent lectures entitled as “Vesicle trafficking in plant development” and “Auxin flow pinpoints the plant development - mechanistic insights into polar PIN auxin efflux carrier targeting” respectively, which arouse the students and teachers’ great interest and hot discussion. During their visit, Prof. Hongwei Xue and some members of our lab made further communication with them over quite a broad range of scientific researches, which will do great help for both sides’ researches in the future. (WW)
[Academic Exchanges] 2009-6-2, invited by Prof. Hongwei Xue, Dr. Zhi-liang Zheng from City University of New York and Dr. Huan-quan Zheng from McGill University, made a visit to SIPPE. And they gave lectures entitled as “Carbon and nitrogen nutrient balance signaling in plants” and “Membrane trafficking and cell polarity: Rab-A GTPases and their uncles dance on the way” respectively. After that, Prof. Hongwei Xue, together with some other professors, made further discussion with them over some related researches. (WW)
[Academic Exchanges] 2009-5-22, Prof. Xuemei Chen from University of California, Riverside, was invited by Prof. Hongwei Xue to SIPPE, and gave an excellent lecture entitled as “Small RNA metabolism and function in Arabidopsis”. Prof. Chen has made great achievement in her research areas of floral patterning and small RNA biology. During this lecture, she mainly introduced the latest progress of small RNA research in her lab, which aroused great interest and hot discussion with the professors and students present. After that, Prof. Hongwe Xue, together with some other related professors, made a further discussion with Prof. Chen over some prospective collaboration. (WW)
[Lab Tendency] 2009-05-11, 2009 Annual group meeting of Functional Mechanisms of Hormones and Seed Development Functional Genomics was held in the meeting room of our institute. Firstly Prof. Hong-Wei Xue made the summary for the academic achievements of the last year and drew a blueprint for the future’s work. Next, we made a wide discussion for our current research concerns in PI signaling, transcription factor, leaf development, seed quality, hormones and microRNA. In the end, teachers introduced the bylaw of our lab as well as genetic research methods and so on. Sincerely hope our lab to get further achievements in the future. (cyj)
[Lab Tendency] 2009-4-16: Lin Chang, a Ph.D. student in our lab, successfully passed her PH.D. thesis defenses. Congratulations! Duiring the course, she presented her outstanding achievement of the researches on the functional conservation of the key meiotic genes for male meiosis in the monocot rice. Professor Hong Ma and four other evaluation experts gave a valuable assessment of her work.
[Academic Exchanges] 2009-4-3, Distinguished Prof. Natasha Raikhel from University of California，Riverside, was invited by Prof. Hongwei Xue to SIPPE, and gave a lecture entitled as “Understanding Endomembrane Trafficking via Chemical Genomics, Proteomics and Visual Microscopy”. In the lecture, she mainly introduced the latest progress of using chemical genomics research the vesicle trafficking as well as cell wall polysaccharide biosynthesis, which aroused great interest of people. After that, Prof. Hongwei Xue introduced related work to her, and discussed closely with Prof. Natasha over some prospective collaborations. (WW)
[Lab Tendency] 2009-3-25, A new staff, Dr. HongyanYao joined in our group and begin her research on Plant phosphatidylinositol (PI) signaling pathway. Welcome to our lab!(zxy)
[Academic Exchanges] 2009-3-24, the 1st SIPPE-UCSD Workshop on Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants was jointly held successfully by SIPPE and UCSD. As the chairman of the workshop, Prof. Hongwei Xue and Yan Guo hosted the meeting. Distinguished Prof. Julian Schroeder and Prof. Yunde Zhao from UCSD, Jian-Kang Zhu from UC Riverside and other famous researchers in China on the plant development as well as adversity stress response were invited to give excellent lectures. All the members of our lab actively attended this academic feast, and communicated closely with the lecturers. (WW)
[Lab Tendency] 2009-3-20,The state winners of special government allowance were announced recently. In Shanghai Institutes for Biological Science, Prof. Hong-Wei Xue and other six persons got this laurel. This allowance started in 1990 and aimed at awarding the experts, scholars or technicians that made outstanding contributions in their fields. Congratulations!
[Lab Tendency] 2009-02-04, a new academic meeting was hold and professor Xue summarized the academic achievement in 2008 and draw a blueprint in 2009 for our group's work. At the same time, welcome four students joined in our group and began a five-year study. (zxy)
[Lab Tendency] 2009-01-12 to 13, the year of 2008 conclusion meeting of National Key Laboratory of Plant Molecular Genetics was held in the lecture hall. Xu Chen and LiangJiao Xue presented reports titled as “An Inositol Polyphosphate 5-Phosphatase Functions in PHOTOTROPIN1 Signaling in Arabidopsis” and “Characterization and expression profiles of miRNAs in rice seeds”. And they discussed with teachers and students after the reports. (cyj)

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[Lab Tendency] 2008-12-6 to 7: Workshop on Arabidopsis research 2008 was successfully held in Shanghai. Professor Hongwei Xue and many students in our lab attended the meeting and listened to the speeches carefully. And professor Xue gave a report on “Functional mechanism of MSBP1 in BR signaling and photomorphogenesis”. (xjj)
[Lab Tendency] 2008-11-28, Two papers, "Characterization and expression profiles of miRNAs in rice seeds" by Xue and Functional conservation of the meiotic genes SDS and RCK for male meiosis in the monocot rice" by Chang has been accpeted seperately byNucleic Acid Research and Cell Research. Congratulations!
[Lab Tendency] 2008-11-11, Shang Hai-Unilever Research and Development Fund award ceremony was hold in Galaxy Hotel. Researchers and students gained this fund and scholarship attended this ceremony. Our group member Xu Chen gained this year's Shan Hai-Unilever scholarship for her outstanding work as a Ph.D. candidate. Congratulations!
[Academic Exchanges] 2008-11-10 to 12: Professor Hongwei Xue attended the 6th International Symposium of Rice Functional Genomics (ISRFG) held in Jeju, Republic of Korea. And in the breeding and application session, professor Xue gave a report on “Studies on the rice leaf development”. (xjj)
[Student Life] 2008-11-3, All of the Communist Party Members in our group attended the “Mobilization Congress for Thorough Study and Practice the Scientific Development View” of SIBS (Shanghai Institute for Biological Science). Jianxin Zhang, secretary of Party committee of SIBS, gave a mobilization report. After the congress, we all experienced that we should integrate the theory with practice in our work and try our best to contribute to the Science and Technology Innovation.
[Academic Exchanges] 2008-11-2 to 5: Professor Hongwei Xue and Cheng Dai took part in the sixth International Conference on the Frontiers of Plant Biology held in Lijiang, Yunnan, China. And the subject of this meeting is protein modifications in plant development and plant signaling. (xjj)
[Lab Tendency] 2008-10-22, 3 students in our lab successfully passed their opening reports. In the opening report meeting, they discussed with teachers and other students on their work plan in future. Their reports also gained many valuable suggestions from attended experts.(cyj)
[Lab Tendency] 2008-11-3, Two papers, "Studies on rice seed quality through analyzing a large-scale T-DNA insertion population" by Fu and "Membrane Steroid Binding Protein 1 (MSBP1) Stimulates Tropism by Regulating Vesicle Trafficking and Auxin Redistribution" by Yang has been accpeted by Cell Research and Molecular Plant. Congratulations!
[Academic Exchanges] 2008-10-7 to 10: Professor Hongwei Xue attended the 9th International Congress on Cell Biology (ICCB 2008) held in Seoul, Korea. And in the symposium of Plant Hormones and Cell Differentiation, professor Xue gave a report on "Phospholipid signaling in auxin effects through regulating the polar auxin transport". (xjj)
[Academic Exchanges] 2008-9-25, Shenzhou VII, carrying astronauts Zhigang Zhai, Boming Liu and Haipeng Jing, blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center successfully at 21:10. Pro. Hongwei Xue, as the director of space life sciences, was present in the launch center watching the exciting spectacular sight of blast-off. This time the astronauts are expected to fulfill China’s first spacewalk mission, which represents a milestone of our country’s aerospace technology achievement. (WW)
[Lab Tendency] 2008-9-25：Dr.Wei-Min Ni gave a detailed report entitled “Phytochrome signaling through phosphorylation and degradation of Phytochrome-Interacting Factors (PIFs)”. Later he visited our laboratory. Dr.Ni graduated from our lab in 2001.(xjj)
[Lab Tendency] 2008-9-10, four new students of 2008 came to our lab for a 2-month rotation practice. They will get knowledge on some basic skills and get to learn research field of our lab during this period. We will have 8 students for rotation practice in this term and four of them stay in our lab. (cyj)
[Student Life] 2008-9-3, the 2008th SIPPE opening ceremony was held in the lecture hall. Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences Professor Yungang Shen and Professor Hongwei Xue addressed in the ceremony. Professor Xue made an introduction of the rapid progress and general information of SIPPE, meanwhile anchored great hopes on every one of them to achieve their scientific goals and enjoy the journey of their research in SIPPE. (WW)
[Lab Tendency] 2008-9-4: The SIPPE group leaders' subgroup colloquium was held. Professor Hongwei Xue gave an talk entitled "Cross-talk between Phosphatidylinositol pathway and plant development regulation". and discussed with Prof. Xiaoya Chen, Qiguang Wen, Zuhua He et al. (zxy)
[Academic Exchanges] 2008-9-2: Our group leader Prof. Xue shared his birthday cake with all group members to celebrate his birthday. Happy birthday to Mr. Xue.(zxy)
[Student Life] 2008-08-25, The new term is coming. After a brief relaxation in the summer holiday, all the members returned and with good fettle devoted a new round of busy but interesting working. Each of the member well concluded their already reach and meanwhile made a new arrangement for pursuing higher goals. New students will join our lab for rotation practice in this term. Very welcome! And sincerely wish everyone to fulfill more and more good dreams in the new term.(cyj)
[Lab Tendency] 2008-8-8：On the last day of 2008 Beijing Olympic torch relay, academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences Professor Zhihong Xu of our institute, also the president of Peking University and the final torch-bearer, carried the torch and lit the cauldron at the Olympic Youth Camp, which brought thunderous applause and cheers from the crowd. This relay is the last one before the torch lights the flame cauldron in the National Stadium to symbolling the onset of the 2008 Olympic Games. During the 130-day worldwide relay, the sacred flame has travelled 137,000 kilometers through 130 cities and finally arrived at Beijing. Professor Xu was very excited, and said "We have been preparing for the Beijing Olympic Games for seven years, and eventually it is about to open. I hope that all young people make joint efforts and contribute to the successful hosting of the Olympics."(xjj)
[Lab Tendency] 2008-7-14 to 18:The 1st life science summer camp of SIBS (Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences) was successfully held in Shanghai. Many college students coming from all over the country participated in the activity. During the five days, the campers attended various academic activities, listened to speeches, and communicated face-to-face with excellent advisors and students. Several campers of SIPPE visited our lab. Teachers Meiqing Xing and Li Song kindly gave them an attracting introduction on the research in our lab. Professor Hongwei Xue, the leader of our institute, friendly met and talked with them. In the evening party, the Ph.D student Hongbo Gao brought a beautiful song "Heaven and Earth in My Heart", which won a lot of applause. Cordially wish the campers to have pleasant time in Shanghai, and through this activity to gain some beneficial enlightenment on the future! (xjj)
[Lab Tendency] 2008-7-7: The degree award ceremony of Shanghai Institutes for Biological Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, was held in the hall of the institute. Our group members, Yuan Wang, Shuqing Zhao and Qian Xue joyfully attended this great ceremony for them. After the ceremony, they took photos with our tutor, Professor Hongwei Xue, and with group members as a souvenir. They have finished an important course in their lives. No matter how hard, they all are the victors. Best wishes to them for bright future.(zxy)
[Student Life] 2008-7-4: all the communists in our lab went to visit Hangzhou Bay Bridge for commemorating the Communist Party's Day. It is the longest sea-strided bridge in the world. All of us praised the beautiful Hangzhou Bay Bridge and the unique scenery of the sea bridge, and were highly proud of the increased level and power of the science and technique in our country.
[Academic Exchanges] 2008-7-3，professor Qi Yijun from NIBS (National Institute of Biological Sciences,Beijing) was invited to SIPPE and gave a lecture entitled as “RNAi in Arabidopsis and Chlamydomonas”. He subsequently come to visit our lab and discussed some interesting topics with related members in our lab, kindly providing valuable suggestion and clues for our future research.(ww)
[Lab Tendency] 2008-7-2, Three students (Yuan Wang, Qian Xu, Shu-Qing Zhao) successfully passed their Ph.D thesis defenses. CONGRADUATIONS! During the course, the three PhD candidates presented their splendid achievement of the researches on function of inositol polyphosphate 5-Phosphatase, function of genes controlling lamina inclination, and the mechanism underlying the polarity of auxin transport. Their bright and desirable responses on the widespread and profounded questioning fully qualified their eligibility on the PhD graduation. The committee in the defense meeting finally also proposed many valuable suggestions to their further improvement. (cyj)
[Lab Tendency] 2008-6-29, two new students, Zhang Hua and Bao Yan, come to our lab for a 2-month summer practice. During this period, they will get some training in basic experimental skills and get to learn research fields in our lab. Hope they will have a meaningful experience and enjoy themselves. (ww)
[Lab Tendency] 2008-5-6, Haiyang Luo, just graduated from high school in German, came to our open lab for a two-month practice as a visiting student. He will acquire a systematic training of basic experimental skills in molecular biology. Through studying closely with group members, we believe that he can get some flowers in our harmonious garden.(Xiaoyi Zhou)
[Lab Tendency] 2008-5-21 to 23:The Annual Academic Conference and Development Strategy Symposium of Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology & Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, was successfully held in Deqing, Zhejiang province. Professor Hongwei Xue, Teachers Sishi Shen, Gonghao Jiang, and four students Ling Chang, Yu Mei, Xu Chen, Liangjiao Xue participated in the conference. Professor Xue, as the leader of the institute, summarized the achieved research progress of our institute in 2007 and pictured the development blueprint in 2008. Xu Chen presented a report about her outstanding research on "An Inositol Polyphosphate 5-Phosphatase Functions in PHOTOTROPIN1 Signaling in Arabidopsis". In the final group discussion, a prominent topic about how to help the rescue and rebuilding work in the earthquake-striken area was highlighted. Each attended member expressed their strong wishes and as well contributed a lot of constructive thoughts to help speed the rebuilding of the disaster area (xjj)
[Student Life] 2008-5-15, all the members including teachers and students in our lab automatically donated money to Wenchuan County in Sichuan Province which suffered from earthquake as strong as 8.0-grade. We wish to help our disastrous compatriots in the earthquake-stricken area to soon get through this severe strike. Earthquake tightly drew the hearts of the teachers and students. We prayed the disaster area could be recovered as soon as possible. (cyj)
[Lab Tendency] On April 17, 2008, Six graduate students (Yong Tang, Wenjing Jia, Jingjing Xiang, Hongbo Gao, Linlin Yin and Jun Wang) successfully passed their mid-term examination and were formally updated as Ph.D. candidates. These six students systematically summarized their achievement on the study of functional mechanisms of hormones or seed development functional genomics in their past two to three years, and meanwhile presented ambitious prospects for future work. Their work and plan were also gained considerable beneficial suggestion via adequate discussion with attented experts and students on related research field.(zxy)
[Academic Exchanges] 2008-4-17, the 108th Workshop and Eastern Forum on Bio-Energy was ceremoniously held in Shanghai Huxing Science & Technology Library. As one of the organizers, Prof. Hong-wei Xue gave the initial salutatory and presided over the forum. The renowned experts at home and abroad were invited together to state topics on the research arts including energy crops, potentials to engineer plant metabolism for biofuel production, and the technologies to biomass conversion into biofuels including biogas production and utilization. (cyj)
[Academic exchanges] 2008-4-10, a delegation from IBCAS (Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing) came to visit SIPPE. They, accompanied by Prof. Xue Hongwei, were brought to inspect our lab and other labs as well. (ww)
[Lab Tendency] 2008-3-25, Xiaoyi Zhou, Yujia Chu and Wei Wang joined our group after rotation practice. They carried the opening reports at Mar18, and discussed their projects about the plant hormone or phosphatidylinositol signalings with Prof. Hongwei Xue and other students.
[Lab Tendency] 2008-1-25, Six students( Yuan Wang, Qian Xu, Shuqing Zhao, Ling Chang, Yu Mei, Yanan Yang) passed their review thesis this year. In the thesis answer meeting, they introduced development of the research on auxin, ABA, cell skeleton and meiosis. From the ardent discussion, we learned plenty of useful technique and thoughtway.
[Academic Exchanges] 2008-1-18: the 2nd Arts Festival & Field Presentation Meeting of SIBS(Shanghai Institute for Biological Science) was ceremoniously hold in The Hope Hotel. The member of SIBS, including SIBC,SIN,SIPPE,SIHC,SIPS, IPS-CAS, gave a Brilliant performances. AIYUE chorus and the tutors of SIBS also show their Elaborate Programme of Entertainment. The Festival was began by the Aerobics, and the audience gave their highest praise to ZhangChen who sang the song -- The Phantom of the Opera.(xuchen)
[Academic Exchanges] 2008-1-5, Professor Hong Ma from University of Pennsylvania visited our lab on 5th Jan, 2008. He discussed with Prof. Hong wei Xue about the progress of collaboratory works and then communicated with the Ph.D. student Ling Chang in our lab. It provided many help for the further progress of the subject. (from fffu)

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[Student Life] 2007-12-28, the "Singing for 2008" evening party was held in the hall of institute. The New Year party was filled with bright and impassioned atmosphere, singing master and climax emerged continually. At the end, ZhangChen won the first with 94 high marks, and GaoHongbo-WangJun Group got the third prize. Congratulations and happy new year! (xuchen)
[Lab Tendency] 2007-12-24, Associated Professor Guangheng Zhang from China National Rice Research Institute visited our lab. Prof. Hongwei Xue welcomed him and discussed with him in several aspects on collaboratory research fields. Zhang brought the experimental materials for collaboratory research projects and discussed with students in our lab on experimental technology. (fffu)
[Student Life] 2007-12-21 Today, all members passionfully take part in thorough cleanup of the lab. Professor Hong-Wei Xue and other teachers advised us that we’d better clean up our experiment desk and tidy the instruments every week on Friday morning. So today we mobilize all the members to join in cleaning up. Redundancy reagent bottles are washed; shelves with dust are brushed; all kinds of instruments are cleaned. The neat environment offers us happy mood and harmonious experiment atmosphere. (xxhan)
[Student Life] 2007-12-3, The academic salon will be held on this Friday night again. The student Jing-Jing Zhang, who is a cadre of student union primarily responsible for learning, takes charge of the academic salon. Usually the academic salon will invited an excellence student to give us an academic report and tell our story about the experiments. After the report Jing-Jing Zhang screens a film which she picks out from abundance new or classical dishes. Many of the students like to attend the academic salon and they can learn from the excellence student’s report and also take a release from the film on the weekend night. (xxhan)
[Lab Tendency] 2007-11-27, Paper "An Inositol polyphosphate 5-phosphatase functions in phototropin 1 signaling through altering cytosolic Ca2+" by Xu Chen & Wen-Hui Lin et al. was accepted by The Plant Cell.At5PTase13, one of 5PTases family, is a key enzyme in phosphatidylinositol metabolic pathway. This work shows At5PTase13 acted independently from CRY1 and COP1, but functionally interacted with PHOT1 gene, and At5PTase13 may antagonize the function of PHOT1 through calcium signaling under blue light.
[Lab Tendency] 2007-11-24, At noon of November 23, four students of our lab Yuan Wang, Shu-Qing Zhao, Xu Chen and Qiu-Ming Shi attended a fun tug-of-war competition held by SIPPE on the basketball courts. Tug of war competition had appeared in 1904 Summer Olympics. Our game needs boys and girls each team. They can strengthen cooperation in the team with each other. Although we lose the game at last，"Friendship first, Competition Second”was the theme of such "Friendship Games".(xxhan)
[Lab Tendency] 2007-11-11, PengHu, YongTang, FangfangFu and Xuchen in our lab joined in the SIBS indoor athletic meeting. The competition was fierce and exciting. In the match of "shooting basketball", FangfangFu exerted her unique skill and won impassioned applause from the whole audience, and got the runner-up. In the match of "push-and-pull", all our members held together and successively got the victory. Unluckily, we lost the final game. Finally, the Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology came second of the whole score.
[Lab Tendency] 2007-11-18, The physical culture festival of SIPPE had held on the weekend. Physical culture festival aims at improving the students’ strength and health through various physical exercises. Four students in our lab Yong Tang, Jing-Jing Zhang, Xi Yang and Bin-Qing Wen are the cadres of student union, they prepared for the festival in the experiment interspaces. (xxhan)
[Academic Exchanges] 2007-11-12:Professor Klaus Palme from Center for Systems Biology at the University of Freiburg (Germany), was invited by Professor Hong-wei Xue to SIPPE and gave a lecture titled as “Auxin in action: signalling, transport and the control of plant growth.” on 12th Nov. During the report, Prof. Klaus Palme introduced their research progress about the plant hormone auxin and its action based on the Systems Biology, which delineated the pathways of auxin transport, perception and signal transduction and together define the roles of auxin in controlling growth and patterning. It brought a heat discussion. After the report, Professor Klaus Palme made a closely communication with Professor Hong-wei Xue about some details on this subject. (from fffu)
[Lab Tendency] 2007-11-7:Three new students of 2007 come to our lab for a 8-week rotation practice. they will learn some basic skills during this period. we will have 6 students in all this term and three of them stay in our lab. (from llgao)
[Lab Tendency] Six graduate students in our lab are preparing for the opening report. In SIPPE, Graduate students need to write opening report and make thesis plan in the start of the 2nd semester. Students are required to access a number of backgrounds and write a report of no less than 5000 words and the contents include backgrounds and working significance report. Opening report shall be under the instruction of at least three instructors. We give our best regards to these students and hope that they can obtain more productions in the future. (xxhan)
[Student Life] On September 26th, the "Welcome the freshman" evening party was held in the hall of institute. The party was lively and brilliant, which attracted large crowds. There were programs such as the hip-hop dance, Chinese kung fu, cross- talk, and so on. Jingjing Zhang showed the dynamic and lively aerobics, which won a tempest of applause. The atmosphere over this party was bright and high, and the party had a great end.
[Student Life] Happy Teacher's day! Teachers were working hard in the last year. We all thank for your guide and help in our study and life.
[Student Life] We all appreciate a nice holiday after a half-year of hard working. The new term is coming again. Summarizing the get and lost from the last term, everyone should have the new plans for the new goals. And welcome the new schoolmate joining in our lab.
[Academic Exchanges] Accompanied by Prof. Le KANG, director-general of the CAS Bureau of Life Sciences and Biotechnology and Prof. Bo-wei tang, Vice Secretary of the Party Committee President of SIBS, Prof. Jiayang LI, CAS vice president in charge of biological research, paid a visit to SIPPE on 27th July. He held talks with the executives and principals of SIPPE on the S&T development, talent training, research platform construction S&T management, and graduate programs. Prof. Li gave positive comments on SIPPE achievements and encouraged SIPPE members to preserve in development and improve the competitiveness and influence of SIPPE. (from fffu)
[Lab Tendency] Junior and senior students and some of graduate students from College of Life Science, East China Normal University visited our lab on 13th June. Prof. Hong-wei xue gave a warm welcome meeting to the students and introduced the subject setting, research achievements and research characteristic about our institute to them. After the meeting, the students visited some lab and communicated with some PI of the lab, they all feel happy to know many about the science research area in such a meaningful way. (from fffu)
[Lab Tendency] Review " Involvement of phospholipid signaling in plant growth and hormone effects" by Hong-Wei Xue et al. was accepted by Current Opinion in Plant Biology.
[Lab Tendency] Gang Li et al.'s paper "Genome-wide analysis of phospholipase D family in Oryza sativa and functional characterization of PLDβ1 in seed germination" has been accepted by Cell Research. Congratulations!
[Lab Tendency] Stefano Mancuso et al.'s paper " Phospholipase Dζ2 Drives Vesicular Secretion of Auxin for Its Polar Cell-Cell Transport in the Transition Zone of the Root Apex" has been accepted by Plant Signaling & Behavior. Congratulations!
[Lab Tendency] The Nature journal is the one of the most famous scientific journals, which is the goal for scientists. However, there are few papers from chinese scientists in the journal. To this question, on June 12nd the SIBS invited editor in chief of the Nature journal to have a presentation and encourage chinese to submit their contribution . Professor hongwei Xue indicated that numerous chinese scientists were short of their research production for Nature. A lot of graduate students and professors were attracted to participate in the conference and inspired to be harder for their research work.(cdai,2007-6-19)
[Student Life] Congratulations! In the SIBS volleyball match, the Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology got the runner-up and YuanWang, PengHu and YongTang in our lab joined as the members. The competitions were always really exciting from preliminary contest to the final. We think it is a good chance of champion for us. Unluckily, we lost the final game for the score of 1:2. It is hoped that in the next year we could recapture the champion.(cdai,2007-6-19)
[Lab Tendency] Recently, our professor Hong-Wei Xue required all the students in our lab to ask at least one question in our seminar. Professor Hong-Wei Xue said that: if you listen to the report with the question, you could acquire more information and knowledge. Professor Hong-Wei Xue encouraged everybody to ask more question in seminar. From lately seminar we pleasantly found that this measure promoted our initiative spirit, pushed all of us take part in other students’ work and at last advanced our field of vision. (2007-6-19)
[Student Life] On May 12th, Students of SIPPE went to Mogan mountain and Nanxun old town for the spring outing. Mogan mountain is a famous mountain in china history because it’s the naissance of the rumorous Ganjiang and Moxie swords. Nanxun is an old tradition town and has more than seven hundred years history. The students breathe the fresh air of the environs and relax themselves. This is a fine adjustment between the study and life. (xxhan,2007-6-19)
[Lab Tendency] On April 10th, professor Xue has been invited to be the "Guest Professor of The College of Life Sciences, Peking University. Congratulations! (2007-5-26)
[Academic Exchanges] Prof. Vicki L. Chandler from the University of Arizona, USA visited SIPPE on 15th May. The research of Prof. Vicki L. Chandler was focus on the regulation of gene expression. In 2001 Dr. Chandler received the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Faculty Researchers of the Year Award and in 2002 she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. During the visiting in SIPPE, Prof. Vicki L. Chandler presented a lecture titled as “Tandem Repeats Mediate Heritable Chromatin Changes Through an RNA-Directed Mechanism” in that she introduced some research progress in the regulation of gene expression on chromatin level. After the lecture, Prof. Vicki L. Chandler visited our lab. Prof. Hong-wei Xue introduced some related work of us to Prof. Chandler, and then discussed closely. It brought many suggestions to our research work. (fffu)
[Academic Exchanges] Dr. Sonja Maki from Biology Department at Carleton College, Northfield, MN, USA visited our lab on 8th May. Dr. Sonja Maki come to SIPPE and gave a lecture title as “Regulation of meristem fate in Pisum Sativum L.” in the morning, then she visited our lab and had a closely communication with Prof. Hong-wei Xue about the research progress of both sides, and they both made some suggestions for work of each other . (fffu)
[Academic Exchanges] Professor Wei-xiong Zhang from Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Washington University was invited by Professor Hong-wei Xue to SIPPE and gave a lecture titled as “A novel integrated approach to identification of stress-inducible microRNA genes in Arabidopsis thaliana” on 13th Mar. After the report, Professor Wei-xiong Zhang visited our lab and had a closely communication with Professor Hong-wei Xue about the progress in microRNA research, and they both hope to have a collaboration with each other on some project in the future.
[Student Life] Jan. 28-30th 2007, all the students in our lab went to The Sun Island which is a charming place to spend our vacation. We relaxed ourselves and did some amusements, such as riding horse, running karting and playing archery. The second day, we held a pingpong competition to promote friendship and strengthen habitus. Among the laugh, the game ended as a dogfall.
The most important item on the agenda was the year-end conclusion meeting. Professor Xue summed up the whole 2006 year, praising the achievement and prospecting the next year. He mainly introduced the work progress in the areas of Signal Transduction, Hormone Mechanisms and Seed Development Functional Genomic, especially put forward to set up the system of measurement the hormone content and in situ hybridization. Professor also gave his advise on personal work and problems we had to confront and solve in the future. Students discussed zealously to the questions and hoped to have more communion and cooperation.
At the end of this trip, we took a photo together，we all hope we can get more achievements in the new 2007.